Volume II 1603-1660 - The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

1618-19] INNER TEMPLE RECORDS. III
CHRISTMAS ACCOUNT BOOK.
ACCOUNT for Christmas, 1618. Among the items are the following :—
"Chicks for settell soppes, 19," 26s. iod.;
staves for Mr. Leven and Mr. Corte,
2s.; a padlock for the tower, 2S. ; oysters
for pies, 4 gallons, 21s. 4d. ; a quire of
paper, 4d.; smelts to fry, 3s. 4d. ; mending
iron boxes, 2s. 6d. ; the halbert
mending, 23'. 6d. ; butter for paste and
chickens for " sorrell sopps."
PARLIAMENT held on 22 November, 16 James I., A.D. 1618, before
JOHN WALTER, ROBERT HEATH, recorder of London, HUGH
HARE, RICHARD BROWNLOW, E DMUND P RIDEU X, GEORGE CROKE,
and others. SIR T HOMAS COVENTRYE, treasurer.
Special admissions of Cary Reynell, son and heir of Sir George
Reynell, at the request of George Croke ; and of Richard Ridley of
the county of Salop, at the request of Baron Bromley.
The chamber in dispute between Dale, Sir Augustine Pagrave
and Sadler is declared to be the right of the said Dale and Pagrave.
Order that Thomas Chamberlen, the gardener, shall pay 20S.
yearly rent for the part of the house in which he dwells during the
time that Mortimer's wife continues there, and 40s. afterwards.
A pension of 2S. a week granted to Henry Branch, one of the
turnspits, in respect of his age and disability of body, and Ralph
Grant, the porter, shall have the place of turnspit.
PARLIAMENT held On 20 December, 16 James I., A.D. 1618, before
J OHN WALTER, ROBE RT H EATH, RICHARD BROWNLOW, GEORGE
CROKE, and others. SIR THOMAS COVENTRYE, treasurer.
The officers to watcli carefully during the vacation.
PARLIAMENT held on 24 January, 16 James I., A. D. 1618-19, before
JOHN SOTHERTON, baron of the Exchequer, JOHN WALTER,
ROBERT HEATH, EDMUND PRIDEUX, RICHARD BROWNLOW,
GEORGE CROKE, and others. SIR THOMAS COVENTRYE, treasurer.
Stewards for the reader's dinner :—Robert Wiseman, the elder,
Thomas Whattman, and William Duckett.